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Garvey, Catherine; Rocklyn, Eugene H. – 1965
To meet the need for a short, self-instructional, tactical language course in a Far Eastern tonal language of potential military significance, a course in Mandarin Chinese was developed by adapting the methods described in Subtask CONTACT II with reference to a European language (Russian). The purpose of the course was to enable combat soldiers to…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives
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Borgstrom, Lena; And Others – 1976
This report summarizes a project which, among other points, investigated the following: (1) the content and design of the education offered to adults of limited schooling; (2) student and teacher attitudes toward the content and design of this education; and (3) the characteristics of those students who continue, and of those who discontinue,…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Students, Course Content
Lafayette, Robert C. – 1976
The minicourse in foreign language teaching is an outgrowth of the diversified curriculum that is based on the personal-benefit theory. The importance of the individual and the need for a differentiated program designed to foster individual interests and maximize individual potential is stressed in this theory. The rapid growth of alternative…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Educational Innovation
Holec, H. – 1974
This article presents an analysis of a course in oral English created at the University of Nancy in 1974 for adult beginning students of English as a second language. The linguistic foundations of the course are discussed (verbal communication and communicative competence), as well as its psychopedagogic and pedagogic bases (cognitive approach,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs
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Freihoff, Roland; Takala, Sauli – 1974
Under a contract with the Ministry of Education the working party prepared a general system for describing language teaching objectives to be used in higher education. The system is based on the specification of language use situations. By means of it the course objectives may be described in the form of communicative tasks, which the students are…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Descriptive Linguistics